Ruth McKenney

Love wasn’t on Sam Caldwell’s agenda until a city boy with haunted eyes and no coat crashed into his world. As a fourth-generation maple farmer in Caldwell Crossing, New Hampshire, Sam is rooted in tradition, family, and a quiet life filled with woodsmoke, laughter, and loyal friends. But everything changes when he finds Ben Marshall half-frozen on the side of the road. Ben is sharp, guarded, and running from his past—yet there’s a pull between them that Sam can’t ignore. Ben never expected to end up in a snowy New Hampshire town, especially not after losing everything in Boston. Forced to leave his career and reputation behind, he retreats to the one safe place left—his great-aunt Harriet’s home in Caldwell Crossing. But safety doesn’t mean peace, and the last thing he needs is to catch feelings for the grumpy, gentle farmer who rescued him. As winter thaws and maple flows, so does something deeper between Sam and Ben—trust, laughter, and the terrifying possibility of love. But when Ben’s past threatens to drag him back under, can two men who’ve built walls around their hearts find the courage to create something together?

My Sister Eileen is a collection of autobiographical short stories originally published in the New Yorker magazine. It centers on two sisters from Ohio who move to a basement apartment in the Greenwich Village section of New York City in order to pursue their careers. Older, sensible Ruth aspires to be a writer, while Eileen dreams of success on the stage. A variety of oddball characters bring color and humor to their lives. Among several adaptations for the stage, screen and radio is the outstanding 1942 screwball comedy film starring Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair.

Selections from four previously published books about the author's sister and various other members of her family, with illustrations and about sixty pages of new material.

Memoir of the author and her familys move to Brussels, Belgium after the second world war. Humorous look at a family completely unprepared for their immersion into a foreign country, with small chidren, but no foreign laguage skills. McKenney is the author of *My Sister Eileen, humorous tales of two sisters who move to New York from Ohio. This book was the source material for the play with the same name and the musical Wonderful Town.